Friday, November 23, 2012

Susan Rice - Designated Liar

Ambassador Susan Rice has finally explained, in her opinion, why
she misled the country about what happened during the September 11
terror attack against Americans in Benghazi, Libya. According to Rice,
all the blame should be given to the intelligence community for her
misleading comments made five days after the attack, since she was just
repeating what they had told her.

A
reporter asked, the American ambassador to the United Nations,
"Ambassador Rice, would you explain your view of the controversy
concerning your comments about Benghazi? And have—is Senator McCain fair
in what he has said?"

"As a senior US diplomat, I agreed to a White House
request to appear on the Sunday shows to talk about the full range of
national security issues of the day, which at that time were primarily
and particularly the protests that were enveloping and threatening many
diplomatic facilities—American diplomatic facilities—around the world
and Iran’s nuclear program. The attack on Benghazi—on our facilities in
Benghazi—was obviously a significant piece of this," Rice explains.

"When discussing the attacks against our facilities in Benghazi, I relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community.
I made clear that the information was preliminary and that our
investigations would give us the definitive answers. Everyone,
particularly the intelligence community, has worked in good faith to
provide the best assessment based on the information available. You know
the FBI and the State Department’s Accountability Review Board are
conducting investigations as we speak, and they will look into all
aspects of this heinous terrorist attack to provide what will become the
definitive accounting of what occurred."

Former CIA
Director David Petraeus told Congress on Friday that he and the spy
agency had sought to make clear from the outset that September's deadly
attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, involved an al Qaeda affiliate, lawmakers said.

Petraeus told lawmakers that
"there were extremists in the group" that launched the attack on the
diplomatic mission, describing them as affiliates of al Qaeda and other
groups, said Representative C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat
on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee.

About Me

I was born in Tombstone, Arizona, but moved to California in 1959 when labor strikes at the copper mines devastated the Arizona economy. I've been moving north ever since. Pullman is as far north as I care to live and I'm looking toward reversing the drift.